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Top 10 facts about Google Chrome you should know

There are many facts about Google Chrome but I have listed the top 10 interesting facts...

There are many facts about Google Chrome but I have listed the top 10 interesting facts which are following.

Registry:

GoogleUpdate.exe
wants to mess with the Windows Registry, Spy bot stopped that. I
download legit new applications frequently but registry changes are
rarely the case. Why does Google Update have to mess with my Registry?
There seems not even a way to opt out of Google Update. I barred it from
accessing the web via my Zone Alarm firewall.

Passwords:
I
was just like “wow” when Google Chrome “imported” my passwords from
Fire fox. Did I miss the “opt out” option again? Good to know that
Google builds actual “password import” utilities.

Bookmarks:
I
do not remember allowing Google Chrome to take my Fire fox bookmarks
either. I want to keep my FF bookmarks to myself, it’s none of Google
Chrome’s business.

Most viewed:
Great,
now my employers can easily check out that I was mostly on
arrestbush.org, sexygals.com and Digg.com instead of working. I strongly
advise you to use incognito mode in such cases.

EULA:
Is
this really a browser user agreement or is this just adopted from other
“services”? Did you actually read it? I’m not a lawyer, but some
passages sound crazy: It seems Google Chrome is entitled to share data
with third parties working with Google and revoke your rights to use
this “service” among other weird legalese.

Privacy policy:
Now
this must be a joke! The privacy part of the EULA, the probably most
important issue facing data hungry Google is just a link! It basically
in other words says: “We’re known for our great privacy regulations from
elsewhere, check them out”. So in case you downloaded the browser but
want to install it in off line mode you won’t be able to check out the
privacy policy.

Updates every 25h:
Am
I really unable to opt out the daily (25h) updates? I do not even
update Fire fox before I decide to do so. I just recently switched from
FF 1.5 to FF 2. So now Google wants me to update every single day? I
want to know beforehand why I should update and what changes have been
implemented and then I decide whether I update. You can’t scare me into
submission with bad ware sites etc.Conspiracy theory:
Now
we already know that Google does not care that much about privacy here
(in fact even Microsoft is ridiculing them). In fact Google chief
engineer Matt Cutts (“Head of Webspam”) cites a NYT article to let you
know what Google engineers think about users caring for their privacy,
they are a bunch of “conspiracy theorists”.

Default language:
Google
decides for me which language I should use. As I’m based in Germany I
was forced upon the German version although I chose the default one
(presumably English) and downloaded Google Chrome with my English
language Fire fox. Until now I did not find an option to change that.Safari for Windows:
Google
Chrome is based on the same engine as Safari, which was the buggiest
and most insecure browser of all time from day one. Matt Cutts already
announced that the daily update is for fixing security holes, so it
seems they expect plenty of them. How about not building in such holes
in the first place?
Now many of you will probably think that “I’m
wearing a tinfoil hat” as they say about paranoid people. To be honest I
use at least a dozen of Google’s services in spite of their
shortcomings.

I use

Google search daily a hundred times.

Gmail also my mails are stored in the US and can be read by basically more or less 50 different law enforcement agencies

Google Analytics although I’m an evil SEO

Google Docs for writing blog posts although basically has the copyright for everything you write there